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I went to a family dinner this evening. About nine months ago I went vegan. My parents are aware of this and have been supportive in trying to provide things that I can eat (although I always bring some food of my own so not to inconvenience them). But usually my mom will make me a side dish that we can all share. Tonight we had other relatives over, they all know, because my family likes to talk and that was something that kind of surprised everyone when I went vegan. Anyway, my uncle hunts and there has been a joke for a few years that he has been trying to get me to eat deer meat. I always refused, even when I ate meat. So tonight we were at dinner and my mom pointed out to me a couple dishes she said I could eat. One was a casserole (kind of like a pot pie) that had vegetables in it that was supposed to be vegan. But you couldn’t really see the vegetables because of the crust. Everyone started eating and they waited until I had taken a few bites of everything and then my uncle just burst out laughing and screamed, “how does Miss Vegan like the deer?” I am furious that I ate meat. I mean, obviously I know I am not going to die. But what is making me mad is that everyone at that table (my parents, my brother and his girlfriend, my uncle, my aunt, and my grandmother) all knew and complicit into tricking me into eating meat, and deer meat (which I had always refused to eat) at that. They all thought it was hilarious and when I got up and said that I didn’t think it was funny and said I was going home everyone got mad and told me to grow up and learn to take a joke. So I ended up sitting back down and not eating and everyone just ignored me for the rest of the night. I don’t know how to address this, I am so upset and I don’t see why they thought they had a right to do this or why they think it was funny. What would you do?
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He’s talked about being a pescatarian (?) which means he eliminates meats other than fish and general seafood which is alright with me. I never wanted to change who he was going into the relationship but it would be nice if we had the same ideals. He is super supportive of my veganism and I try to never give him a hard time about eating meat but now that he’s talking about hunting, I’d feel like a hypocrite if it didn’t bother me. I consider myself an environmentalist and an animal rights activist to a point. I don’t like to push my beliefs and I try to respect other’s choices because so many people respect mine. Should I say anything about it to him or let it go?
Thanks for all your answers
I appreciate it.
P.S. I believe that by being a peaceful and loving and accepting person makes me a better activist. Those that shun and throw flour on people who don’t believe the same way as them just turn people off to the whole idea of helping animals and the planet. By being normal and polite a lot of my friends and their families have adopted vegetarian and vegan lifestyle choices.
P.S.S. lol it’s not my place to say what is right or humane if it’s part of a cultural lifestyle (Native American) where they respect the animal and it plays a pivotal role in their society or for feeding your family (like in Africa or South America). It may be hypocritical to some but I see the difference being that over here we don’t need to hunt our meat just like it’s not necessary to wear fur anymore. My boyfriend and his family do it solely for the sport and it feels like it’s more of a power trip thing.
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My mom has never cooked fish before, and we need a good recipe for we starters, cuz basically my whole family absolutely hates sea food )unless it tastes like chicken; and my parents like shrimp… from restaurants). And my mom is not the picky eater type. She is willing to eat anything… except sea food. SO any suggestions? a website with overly exaggerated details would be nice ^_^ Thanx! and no medium rare (or raw) please.
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I want to make a raw recipe from a cooked food recipe which requires 1 Cup of sugar. How much lucuma powder or agave syrup should I use.
I am looking at vegan recipes which contain sugar, and I don’t want to use sugar. I know that a lot of people are using agave syrup, but I don’t know how to convert sugar amounts to agave syrup amounts — I mean, how does the sweetness compare (I understand about reducing the liquid). I am also interested in lucuma powder (seems to be the new agave), and how to convert recipes using agave syrup to lucuma powder.
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Any good tips or recipes that you could share?
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vegans, pleaseeeeeeee help!
I need to make these cookies by tomorrow and I got chocolate chips that have milk fat and all I have is cocoa powder.
I’m allergic to nuts.
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